Podcast Corner: Six things we learned from Ant and Dec's first podcast

The Geordie duo have finally launched their own podcast, entitled Hanging Out With Ant And Dec 

And and Dec — Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly — have launched a new podcast. Picture: Ian West/PA

It’s surprising that Ant and Dec are only starting a podcast now in 2026. Perennial fixtures on TVs since the 1990s, the duo have launched a YouTube channel, Belta Box, featuring celebrity pranks, challenges, sketches and Saturday Night Takeaway favourites - and podcasts. New episodes of Hanging Out with Ant and Dec drop Monday and Thursday. Here’s what we learned from the first episode.

1. They started the podcast because they don’t see each other as much. Ant: “We decided eventually to do a podcast because we realised we're not hanging out as much as we used to.” They’re fathers to very small and big children and Ant’s just moved house (a “spectacular” home, according to his TV partner) so geographically, they’re further away. Dec continues: “We decided to come up with the idea of doing a podcast to sit together and talk some rubbish.” Simple.